HIGH COMMISSIONER

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17228, 7 April 1930, Page 11

HIGH COMMISSIONER

ADVANTAGES OF TRAVEL

THE xNAVAL conference

LONDON, Feb. 20.

Mr. T. M. Wilford, the High Commissioner. is realising the general advantages tie has attained through his extensive travels in past years. . For instance, in 1920, he was living! in California for a month or two, and joined the Hoover eommitteo in the Presidential tight against Hiram Johnson. This American experience has been most useful to him at the Naval Oonlerence. When the United States delegates heard that lie had taken a small part m their domestic polities the mo was immediately broken, and Mr. Wilford lias keen on more friendly terms with those delegates than lie otherwise might have been. Again, Mr. Wilford spent some tune in Japan, and there met such prominent public men as Dr. 'J’oda, Dr Sl.mjo, ii,nil Dr. Atari. The Japauosb delegates at the Naval Cmiferenee are personal friends of these statesmen, and consequently Mr. Wilford has no difficulty in finding subjects of mutual interest in bis conversations with the delegates. The High Commissioner is finding the need for much serious study in connection with the work of the conference but be is deeply interested in it. No one could help being impressed with (he. magnitude of the task Hint has been undertaken by the live nations, each will, its own interests in general, ami its interests in the particular branches of naval armament. > In Lieutenant-Commander A. W. ■ • Agar, V.C.. Mr. Wilford has an abb* adviser, and their evenings are often spent, together studying the voluminous and intricate reports of the eimierenee Inking pliK‘o from day to day. lim>{,on Post.